September 11, 1847

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A Woman's Wit

Them Boots

Silent Thunder

Inventors Claims

Buy the Truth

Wind Engine

Steamboat Collision

New Waterfall

Immense Receipt of Wool

Baggage Car Destroyed by Fire

Water Power

Peppermint Manufactory

Market Prices in Monterey

A Western Farmer

Water Cure in England

New England Chesnut

Heavy Bell

Cunard Line for New York

The Spanish Real

New York Lamp Depot

Lowell

Woodworth's Planeing Machine

Patent Agency

American Bible Society

A Dark Clause

Black Engineers

Collision on Lake Huron

Dome Struck by Lightning

The Difference

Emigration

Chinese Notions of English Carriages

A Match for Tom Thumb

Splendid Engine Depot

Young Mechanics

Mechanics Associations

Good Advice

Tallacotius Outdone

Home and Friends

Iron Works Sold

Lord Byron on Clean Hands

Steamboat Launch

Novel Invention

Safety Boiler Feeder

Improvements in Fulling Cloth

Improved Car Couplings

Patent Ink and Salts of Gold

Scissors Grinder

Improved Stocking Loom

Improved Bee-Hive

Thompson's Life Boat

The Turpentine Trade

Peoria Bridge

The Telegraph in Canada

Electric Telegraph

Wrought Iron for Crank Axies

American Railroads

American Chalk

To New Subscribers

The Scientific American

Money Spent in War

Railroad Wheels and Axles

Sun Flowers

Quality and Cheapness

A Phenomenon

Hieroglyphical Mica Plates from the Mounds

An Honor to His Mother

The North America Bank Vault

Manchester and Lawrence Railroad

An Artesian Well

Singular Fact in Natural History

Railways in Peru

Coating Iron and Zinc With Copper, Without Cyanuret or Potassium

Gloucester Massachusetts Branch Rail-Road

Cheshire Railroad

Sadness

Extraordinary Features in the Geology of Kerguelen Island

New York and New Haven Railroad

The Mexican Gulf Railway

Rust

Extraordinary Courage

Patent Agency at Washington

Daugerrian Gallery

American Hardware

Vol. 1 Scientific American

Woodworth's Patent Planeing Machine

Magnificent Portrait of Maj. Gen. Zach. Taylor

Books! Books

Fifth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

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Iron and Steel

Electricity

Teeth Made of Stone

The Spider's Web

Dead Beat Escapement

Te Preserve Peaches

The New York Scientific American

Curious Work of Art

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To Correspondents

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